Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The Koa Sports Joe Horton Scholarship Fund recently offered three students baseball scholarships.
Joe Horton and his brother Andy successfully completed the 50-mile North Face Endurance Challenge last summer to raise money to establish a sports scholarship fund for unprivileged children, Patch reported. Through the Koa Sports Joe Horton Scholarship Foundation, three students from Washinton, DC, Maryland and Virginia recently were given more than $3,000 in scholarships to help them pursue their passions in baseball. “We couldn’t have planned it any better to get one [each] from DC, Virginia and Maryland, so we are spreading the joy,” Joe Horton said. One of the scholarship recipients, St. John's High School senior Harry Thomas, says that the opportunity can help jump-start his baseball career. “This scholarship is important to me …
Monday, June 4, 2012
Joe and Andy Horton finished the 50-mile North Face Endurance Challenge in just under 12 hours.
Friday's thunderstorms did more than just cause tornado warnings around D.C. The 2 inches of rain dropped on the metro-area turned the already tough North Face Endurance Challenge into an arduous, muddy trek. At 5 a.m. Saturday, Glen Echo brothers Joe and Andy Horton stood ready to run the 50 miles -- muddy trail or not. The two had pledged themselves to the race in an effort to establish a scholarship fund for underprivileged kids interested in playing youth sports with Koa Sports, an organization that uses former college and professional athletes to teach sports fundamentals to boys and girls. Eleven hours and 55 minutes after starting, the brothers finished the endurance challenge side by side, and with a donation of $15,000 for Koa …
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Joe and Andy Horton have pledged to run the 50-mile Northface Endurance challenge in June, already raising over $14,000 for youth sports scholarships.
Early one Sunday morning Joe Horton and his brother Andy woke up, got dressed and went outside for a nine-mile run. When that was finished, they headed over to Carderock to run another 26 miles in the Potomac River Run marathon. The day’s total was 35 miles. Four years ago, Horton couldn’t run the length of his driveway in Atlanta, GA. Today, the Washington, D.C.- area transplant is training to complete the 50-mile Northface Endurance challenge in June. But his mission isn’t just bragging rights. The 41-year-old is attempting to raise $20,000 to establish a scholarship fund for underprivileged kids interested in playing youth sports with Koa Sports, an organization that uses former college and professional athletes to teach sports …
